The Burned Grove

Six years after fire consumed her sacred grove, Jyllithea Gilfmorien enters the Shardsea city of Veyrhal carrying three dangerous inheritances: dragon-blood awakening beneath her skin, a whispering thorn that hungers for flame, and the memory of a sister who may not be dead.
Behind Veyrhal's brass bridges and black-glass seawalls, mercy has become a marketplace. Refugees vanish into temple shelters. Relics stolen from the dead are sold beneath lawful seals. A secretive cult called the Cinder Veil is harvesting survivors-and Jyllithea's blood may be the key to a prison buried beneath the world.
To expose the truth, she must trust a disgraced record-keeper, bargain with a relentless inquisitor, and resist the ancient voices offering simple answers through fire. But when evidence of an inside betrayal surfaces and a captive speaks her childhood name, vengeance is no longer enough. Jyllithea must decide not only what she is willing to burn, but whom she will become when the flames finally answer.
The Burned Grove begins the Ashen Worldheart Saga, an epic dark-fantasy journey across the shattered waters of the Shardsea, where memory is currency, mercy is rebellion, and every name can open a door.